Time Resolved & Dynamic Studies

Time Resolved & Dynamic Studies

With the high X-ray brightness available at 3rd generation light sources such as Diamond, the latest high-speed detector technology and powerful data collection and data analysis software, it is now possible for dynamic in situ studies with time resolution on the second to millisecond time-scales to be performed routinely. There is also an increasing effort to develop a range of experiments that are designed to study dynamic effects in materials on time-scales of microseconds to picoseconds by exploiting the temporal structure of the stored electron beam.

In this workshop, a range of talks will be presented that span the range of time-scales that are currently being studied using a variety of different synchrotron techniques: e.g. the dynamic imaging of transient physical processes; phase transitions studied by diffraction; post-impact shock measurements in materials; and the structural chemistry of photo-excited states determined by stroboscopic pump-probe single-crystal diffraction techniques.

The presentations will cover dynamic structural effects spanning lifetimes in the minute to picoseconds time-scales and will be of interest to those who wish to study dynamic effects in their own research areas.